Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56W. Blackwood & Sons, 1844 |
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... burn on , though wrapp'd in clay . XXV . " To this youth my early troth was plighted , Whilst yet Venus ruled within the land ; Mother ! and that vow ye falsely slighted , At your new and gloomy faith's command . But no God will hear ...
... burn on , though wrapp'd in clay . XXV . " To this youth my early troth was plighted , Whilst yet Venus ruled within the land ; Mother ! and that vow ye falsely slighted , At your new and gloomy faith's command . But no God will hear ...
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... burn my nose and mouth with those damned stumps of cigars . " " Drinks no whisky , " continued I. " He is president of a temperance so- ciety . " " The devil fly away with him ! " growl- ed Moreland ; " I wouldn't give up my whisky for ...
... burn my nose and mouth with those damned stumps of cigars . " " Drinks no whisky , " continued I. " He is president of a temperance so- ciety . " " The devil fly away with him ! " growl- ed Moreland ; " I wouldn't give up my whisky for ...
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... burn- ed , and the ashes thrown into the sea . Those were melancholy acts ; the works of melancholy times . But as no human crime can be so fatal to the security of a state as regicide , no imputation can fall on the memory of a great ...
... burn- ed , and the ashes thrown into the sea . Those were melancholy acts ; the works of melancholy times . But as no human crime can be so fatal to the security of a state as regicide , no imputation can fall on the memory of a great ...
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... Burns - both are lightly etched and good ; but they have not that free and certain hand which marks Mr Tay- ler's style in his drawings , where one wash of the brush hits off his object with great truth . " The Gypsy Boy , " by Mr ...
... Burns - both are lightly etched and good ; but they have not that free and certain hand which marks Mr Tay- ler's style in his drawings , where one wash of the brush hits off his object with great truth . " The Gypsy Boy , " by Mr ...
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... burn the library of Alexandria to diminish the moral in- fluence of the Greeks . The Arabian historians and geo- graphers contain numerous passages relating to the re - opening of the canal , and many of these will be found trans- lated ...
... burn the library of Alexandria to diminish the moral in- fluence of the Greeks . The Arabian historians and geo- graphers contain numerous passages relating to the re - opening of the canal , and many of these will be found trans- lated ...
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Página 396 - And oh ! may Heaven their simple lives prevent From luxury's contagion, weak and vile ! Then, howe'er crowns and coronets be rent, A virtuous populace may rise the while, And stand a wall of fire around their much-loved Isle. O Thou! who pour'd the patriotic tide That stream'd thro...
Página 393 - That hangs his head, and a' that ? The coward-slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that ! For a' that, and a' that, Our toils obscure, and a' that ; The rank is but the guinea stamp ; The man's the gowd for a
Página 269 - ... for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost...
Página 627 - And the steed shall be red-roan, And the lover shall be noble, With an eye that takes the breath : And the lute he plays upon Shall strike ladies into trouble, As his sword strikes men to death.
Página 238 - The objection arising from the impossibility of passing the first hour at Alexandria, and the next at Rome, supposes that when the play opens, the spectator really imagines himself at Alexandria, and believes that his walk to the theatre has been a voyage to Egypt, and that he lives in the days of Anthony and Cleopatra. Surely he that imagines this may imagine more.
Página 240 - It will be asked how the drama moves, if it is not credited. It is credited with all the credit due to a drama. It is credited, whenever it moves, as a just picture of a real original ; as representing to the auditor what he would himself feel, if he were to do or suffer what is there feigned to be suffered or to be done. The reflection that strikes the heart is not that the evils before us are real evils, but that they are evils to which we ourselves may be exposed.
Página 275 - To each according to his capacity ; to each capacity according to its works.
Página 186 - And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem : and he took away the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king's house ; he even took away all : and he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
Página 115 - Your mind is tossing on the ocean There, where your argosies with portly sail, Like signiors and rich burghers of the flood ; Or, as it were, the pageants of the sea Do overpeer the petty traffickers That curt'sy to them, do them reverence, As they fly by them with their woven wings.
Página 392 - Still o'er these scenes my memory wakes, And fondly broods with miser care ; Time but the impression deeper makes, As streams their channels deeper wear.